Chapter 1: What led to the tragic death of Dr. Linda Gowdy?
I always knew that I was going to be a doctor. My father's a doctor, my mother's a nurse, so it was always in my blood to be a doctor. I never questioned it. One of my attractions to Linda was that she was in a similar situation of being a very dynamic person with a very busy practice.
Linda was a passionate advocate. First and foremost, it was a dedication to her patients and especially high-risk OBGYN patients.
She knew her stuff. She was dynamic, but she had this wonderful friendship with her patients.
I respected so much how she went that extra mile to really take care of her patients and do everything that needed to be done to help a mother have a healthy baby.
In 1993, Dr. Stryker and Dr. Gowdy had a relationship that lasted approximately four and a half to five years.
We would go jogging together, and we had dinners together. We had so much to share and so much compatibility.
Our office was notified on October 4th, 1993, it was a Monday, that there was a body found in a gray Saab in Lot A, which is on New England Medical Hospital. Investigation ensued. We realized very quickly who it was, that it was Dr. Linda Gowdy.
That was kind of the wave that went through the hospital, was, oh my God, it can't be true.
We did speak on the phone that evening that she died because she stayed at the hospital. She had phoned me to tell me she wasn't coming over for dinner that night.
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Chapter 2: What was the relationship between Dr. Gowdy and Dr. Timothy Stryker?
I think he's just a very sincere, extremely gentle and even delicate person. He at all times looks to do good to the people around him.
That might be one reason he decided to become a doctor. I just knew it from a very young age, that's what I wanted to do. You know, because it's my nature to want to help people. It was one thing he had in common with Lynn Goudy. She had so much dynamic energy. And she was, by all accounts, driven.
She earned top honors in high school and eventually went to medical school while working as a medical technician. She was a successful OB-GYN, specializing in high-risk pregnancies. She loved what she did.
She was very good at it.
Paula Dennett is a nutritionist who worked closely with Dr. Gowdy.
She was new to the field, but you never thought she was just a rookie. You know, she knew what she was doing, and I'd say she was one of the more respected physicians there in terms of if you're having a problem or a complex pregnancy, Dr. Gowdy's the one to go to.
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Chapter 3: How did the police investigation unfold after Dr. Gowdy's death?
Lisa Zolot was one of Dr. Lynn Goudy's patients who noticed right away that there was something special about her.
Lynn was very good at sixth sense, knowing when things were wrong.
On a routine visit, Dr. Gowdy had a sense that Lisa's unborn baby was in danger.
She decided that I have the C-section right away because something was wrong. And after she made the incision, there was bleeding everywhere. She just had a sick sense that something was wrong. And she was right. Without her, my daughter wouldn't be here. My daughter's name is Lindsay. Basically, we named her after Lynn.
From that day forward, Lisa and Lynn became good friends.
We just clicked. It was just one of those things. So we just became friends, it was easy.
Dr. Lynn Goudy made a lot of friends around the hospital, including Dr. Timothy Stryker. So we met over lunches at the hospital and we started to share patients because I would refer patients to her as a gynecologist.
It became apparent that they were friendly first. He was attractive, she was pretty. We could have just naturally evolved into something.
Before long, their work relationship did evolve into something more. We would sit and read together at night and do movies, and she got me into skiing, and then I got her into scuba diving and the Caribbean trips that we took together.
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Chapter 4: What were the key pieces of evidence against Timothy Stryker?
And she was actually the one that made the reservations for the trip. And it was her idea. She was very happy about it. But Lynn Goudy never took the trip because just weeks before they were to leave, she had a dream. In this dream, she had this vision of being in a car, I think it was, on the side of a mountain and driving around and then seeing a plane go crashing to the side of the mountain.
And she took this as some possible bad omen that perhaps, you know, we might have a plane crash.
And I don't know if her sixth sense kicked in at that point, which wouldn't surprise me, that she had a premonition, whether it was precognitive, that something bad was going to happen on that trip. So what did Lynn plan to do about her dream? She wasn't going on that vacation. She had thought that it wasn't a good idea and that she was not going to go.
But that's not what Tim Stryker says. Well, was she going to go on that trip? Yes. She never said that she wasn't going. Lynn's dream, her plans, and premonitions were about to become more important than anyone could have imagined. No one should have been surprised when Dr. Lynn Gowdy and Dr. Tim Stryker became an item.
They were both successful physicians, active, adventurous, and with a lot in common. But after four years together, they were starting to drift apart. I guess towards the end of the relationship, you know, there may have been some stagnation because she was getting a little burned out from how hard she was working.
But Lynn's friend, Lisa Zolot, says it wasn't just Lynn's work that was burning her out. It was also Stryker, who Lisa says was controlling and self-centered.
It was very rigid and very predictable in his lifestyle. He picked what time you ate, where you went, when you left. You know, he always controlled her totally. It was no changing him. It was that way or the highway.
Stryker says Lynn's friends and family have been making up things about him ever since she died. Are you a flexible man? I have to be flexible to be available when a patient has chest pain or to be available when somebody's traumatized. What about in your personal life? Again, I have to be flexible with my kids, with my wife. And, you know, so it's, again, this is a story they tried to tell.
Whatever the cause, Lynn's friends believe she was getting ready to break up, even as she and Stryker were getting ready to go on that Caribbean vacation.
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Chapter 5: What claims did Stryker make regarding the circumstances of Dr. Gowdy's death?
The attack on Lynn was so brutal that Dr. Kessler found injuries at 24 separate places on her body. How much do you think Dr. Gowdy suffered?
I think she suffered a good bit.
She was so full of life, why would this happen? That was the question, was why? And then how could it happen? And then I think the who came after.
You know, when she died was, initially I was stunned, but then after that, for me, it was just sadness. He may have been stunned, he may have been sad, but police were still eager to talk to Dr. Tim Stryker immediately after they discovered the body of his girlfriend, Dr. Lynn Gowdy.
I was actually called in to speak with the detective right there on the spot, and they asked me, you know, who do you think could have killed her? Of course, it didn't take long at all for police to start focusing on the man they thought did it, the usual suspect, the boyfriend, Dr. Stryker himself.
The cause of death being manual strangulation, in combination with a lot of other factors and evidence that we've developed, led us to believe and continues to lead us to believe that Linda knew her killer.
District Attorney Jerry Leone says detectives quickly learned about the problems Lynn and Stryker were having, even that argument witnesses reported about the scuba trip. The relationship had been described as sometimes rocky, sometimes volatile. In plain English, I mean, was he violent to her? I don't want to characterize Timothy Stryker.
You know, in that way, what we know to be true is that Dr. Stryker and Dr. Gowdy, during the course of their relationship, had some physical confrontations. And at times, it resulted in some injury to Linda.
Stryker says he and Lynn had the kind of problems many couples have. And there was a time where she got very angry in my kitchen because I called her a pea brain. And she had a temper tantrum. There was a cup of peas and a cup of potatoes and a cup of corn. And here she was just throwing these at the walls at my paintings.
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